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Economic research on industry location and agglomeration has focused nearly exclusively on manufacturing. This paper … traditional measures of knowledge spillovers, natural resource inputs, and labor pooling explain little of agglomeration in … services industries, this paper takes an alternative approach and looks at co-agglomeration to assess why industries cluster …
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Current empirical studies on regional specialization mainly focused on measurement of China’s overall regional specialization level, while determinants of industrial geographical distribution, namely the regional specialization pattern, are just paid few attentions. This paper analyzed the...
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Our hypothesis is proposed to introduce the idea of ​​Leviathan weak, the classical conception of the state is problematized; primarily in regions suffering public violence, lack of legitimacy and sovereignty. This paper is the first part of a project that distinguishes three components that...
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Whether urbanization economies are caused by urban diversity or urban scale is not clear in regional and urban economics literature. Many empirical studies have used either city population size or urban industrial diversity to measure urbanization economies and have reached different...
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agglomeration of production in the context of a small open developing economy. We construct a general equilibrium model with …
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agglomeration is greater. It should be noted, as a summary conclusion, the results are consistent with the theoretical developments … agglomeration. …
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Geographical clusters are in the focus of a large breadth of literature and have been discovered as a preferred policy tool by policymakers around the world. The vast literature suggests differing explanations for the advantages clusters offer to constituent firms. Yet not all of these...
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Cluster policy has become a method of choice for economic policymakers in many nations and regions in both industrialized and developing countries. Since the beginning of the 1990s, the policy is being perceived by politicians and practitioners as a way to anchor economic activity in locations...
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all the other usual assumptions. We show that the existence of a banking sector enhances the agglomeration forces; so that …
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The paper proposes a model to investigate the influences of agglomeration on heterogeneous firms' exporting behaviors …. Competition and thus selection effect caused by agglomeration forces less productive firms to exit the market while agglomeration … that the composite effect of agglomeration on firms' exports takes on a Parabola-shape pattern. Moreover, higher …
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